Pelosi predicts 6-3 victory for health law

The Washington Times ^ | 4/4/2012 | Stephen Dinan

[Beave Meister]

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday predicted the Supreme Court will uphold the health care law on a 6-3 vote, saying she and her colleagues "wrote the bill in an ironclad way."

"I'm predicting 6-3 in favor," Mrs. Pelosi told the Paley Center for Media. "We shall see. It's a lesson in civics, and I respect it."

She didn't say which six justices she thought would uphold the law.

Unlike the White House, which said it is not thinking ahead to what happens if the court strikes down part or all of the law, Mrs. Pelosi did grapple with that question, saying Congress will have to find a way to make sure that the benefits she said are now going to 80 million people must be preserved.

Still, she said she has "confidence" the law will be upheld.

[Beave Meister]

She needs to be committed ASAP.

[allmost]

She could have the chambers bugged. She could have more. She could be full of $tuff. I put nothing illegal beyond the dem leadership.

[tacticalogic]

Put that one up on the wall right next to her prediction of a “permanent Democrat majority” in Congress.

[Standing Wolf]

Are you serious, Nancy? Are you serious?

[StAnDeliver]

"I'm predicting 6-3 in favor,"

I'll take as much of that action as she wants to put on any betting exchange anywhere.

"It's a lesson in civics, and I respect it."

Telling statement. She knows the Court is going to take her to school!

[PubliusMM]

Obviously, SanFranNan is inhaling that medical marijuana...

[mamelukesabre]

I’m not so sure. Obama just might be taking the court to school. This country is not what it used to be.

[immadashell]

I think her last Botox treatment was injected directly into her frontal lobe, maybe even by accident.

[flatfish]

Wonder if she’d like to put her money where her mouth is? I’d lilke to make a little bet with her on that, say, $100,000. Let’s see just how strongly she really believes her BS.

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[immadashell]

I think her last Botox treatment was injected directly into her frontal lobe, maybe even by accident.

[VikingMom]

There is speculation that Obama is getting updates from his “gal” on the court, Elena Kagan (who would be forced to recuse herself from this if the Senate Republicans had any balls!).

Maybe Nancy has gotten a tip as to the preliminary votes taken last week.

[OrangeHoof]

...and Pelosi predicted the Democrats would retain the House in 2010.

[allmost]

Any such speculation is valid imo. No fair fight can even be contemplated imo.

[Cowboy Bob]

It would be funny if some of the Supremes “voted” to support the law during the “preliminary vote” just to F*ck with Kagan and Obama’s mind. (and when the time comes for the real vote, they vote against the law)

[JohnBrowdie]

I predict a rubber room for nancy.

[sport]

I think that they will uphold it also. I hope they don’t but it would not surprise me if they did.

[LibLieSlayer]

she absolutely guaranteed that the dims would win the House in 2010... she is of satan and her words are directly from hell.

LLS

[DrC]

“...and Pelosi predicted the Democrats would retain the House in 2010.”

Exactly, just as POTUS jinxed UNC from winning another NCAA title the instant he put them atop his bracket, so Nancy, IMHO has virtually assured SCOTUS will rule part or all of Obamacare unconstitutional.

[cuban leaf]

—benefits she said are now going to 80 million people—

That’s over a quarter of the population. Interesting number.